Hi Chong,
The iconv program is provided with the glibc-common
package. It uses the
glibc implementation of the iconv_* functions
(gconv) and is part of glibc.
$ which iconv
/usr/bin/iconv
I found it tks
> What is it for?
From rom the iconv(1) manpage:
"iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one
encoding to another"
I normally use it to convert Big5/GB encoded
plaintext documents (eg.
HTML, XML, PO, scripts) to UTF-8.
Noted with tks
> Is it from Chinese to
> Japanese/Arabic/Indonesian/etc. and vice versa
You would need a language translation program to
'convert' Chinese to
the languages you listed.
The iconv_* functions (therefore iconv), on the
other hand, were
designed to deal with conversion of one character
encoding to another.
Noted.
With gconv (and I suspect any other iconv
implementation), the specific
conversions are implemented in gconv via modules.
From what I
understand, it is possible to write a module that
does language
translation as part of the conversion process, but I
don't believe it's
been done.
$ which gconv
/usr/bin/which: no gconv in
(/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/satimis/bin)
Neither can I find it on Internet
# yum search gconv
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
....
....
No packages found
Looking in installed packages for a providing package
No packages found
Please advise which package generating 'gconv'
Tks
B.R.
Stephen